Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_migrate-vms 2 07 Oct 2026, 01:40

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 163 0 0 0 0 163 21 0 21 25:1.800 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:6.672
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.934
And I update the APT lists using apt 37.418
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.633
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.776
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.804
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.908
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.236
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.171
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.925
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.341
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.268
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.216
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.994
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.240
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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30.299
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.562
And the system is very low on memory 4.370
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.156
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.919
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.076
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.401
And I free up some memory 0.497
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.262
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.837
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.488
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
And all tps features are active 8.547
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.386
When I disable the first tps feature 2.454
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.613
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.896
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.779
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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13.776
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.168
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.103
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.163
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.503
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 2.448
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.104
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.683
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.046
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 2.498
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.918
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.112
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.880
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 13.513
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.498
When I write some files expected to persist 1.025
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.426
# XXX: The next step succeeds (and the --debug output confirms that it's actually looking for the files) but will fail in a subsequent scenario restoring the same snapshot. This exactly what we want, but why does it work? What is guestfs's behaviour when qcow2 internal snapshots are involved? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.517
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.915
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 10.098
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.557
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.915
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 12.333
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.344
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.054
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 2.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.050
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42.279
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.369
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.109
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.254
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.324
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.002
When I enable persistence 23.425
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.898
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.289
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.367
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.438
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.463
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.851
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.132
When I cold reboot the computer 5.923
And the computer reboots Tails 35.302
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.334
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.235
Given I enable persistence 13.175
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.061
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.140
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.183
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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2:12.654
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.667
# Note that if anything fails after the passphrase was changed and
# before it's changed back below, subsequent scenarios might fail
# because the Persistent Storage doesn't have the expected passphrase.
When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage 30.752
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.381
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.595
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
42.346
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.012
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.344
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.775
And all notifications have disappeared 9.192
When I delete the persistent partition 2.621
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.364
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.179
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.462
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.456
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
58.921
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.656
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.779
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.195
And all notifications have disappeared 8.398
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.313
And all tps features are enabled 8.697
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:20.148
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:30.754
And I enable persistence 30.601
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.209
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.608
And persistence is enabled 9.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.372
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.729
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.110
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.802
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.957
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.568
When I enable persistence 14.314
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.964
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.422
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.294
When I try to enable persistence 1.301
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.373
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.367
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.158
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.104
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.179
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.922
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.185
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.583
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 8.330
And all notifications have disappeared 8.838
# Now both WhisperBack and Tor Browser has started at the same
# time, so we do not know which window is focused. The steps about
# Tor Browser care about that, but the ones about WhisperBack do
# not, so we first deal with WhisperBack and then kill it to
# ensure that Tor Browser is focused.
Then WhisperBack is prefilled for fsck with summary: "Failed to repair the file system of your Persistent Storage" 0.133
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.112
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.218
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.142
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.852
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.318
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.809
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.310
When I try to enable persistence 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.141
When I log in to a new session 8.338
And all notifications have disappeared 7.782
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.132
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000